The Neuroscience of the Lord's Prayer

How Jesus' Prayer Rewires Your Brain for Hope, Healing, and Peace

Foreword by Lysa TerKeurst

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#1 New York Times bestselling psychiatrist and brain imaging pioneer Dr. Daniel Amen reveals how Jesus’s most famous prayer can rewire the brain to improve your mental, emotional and spiritual health.

For two thousand years, countless millions of Christians around the world have prayed the words Jesus taught his disciples: “Our Father, who art in heaven…” But what if the most famous and recited prayer in history is not only spiritually powerful, but also a form of spiritual technology remarkably attuned to the way our brains are designed to heal?

In The Neuoscience of the Lord’s Prayer, #1 New York Times bestselling psychiatrist and brain imaging pioneer Dr. Daniel Amen draws on more than four decades of clinical practice and nearly 300,000 brain scans to reveal the surprising science behind Jesus’s iconic prayer. Moving phrase-by-phrase through the Lord’s Prayer, Amen shows how its ancient wisdom aligns with what modern neuroscience has discovered about connection, awe, hope, surrender, forgiveness, self-control, and resilience—and how regularly, intentionally praying these words can help calm fear, release resentment, strengthen relationships, and train the brain toward greater peace.

Blending biblical wisdom, compelling neuroscience, personal stories, and practical exercises, Amen transforms a prayer many Christians know by heart into a powerful daily practice for mental, emotional, and spiritual healing. Complete with a forty-day journey for putting these insights into practice, The Neuoscience of the Lord’s Prayer invites readers to rediscover ancient words they may have prayed their entire lives—and experience them with new understanding, intention, and transformative power.

About the Author

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Dr. Daniel G. Amen is on a mission to end mental illness by creating a revolution in brain health. A former U.S. Army infantry medic, he is a double board-certified psychiatrist, award-winning researcher, and 12-time New York Times bestselling author of books including Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Raising Mentally Strong Kids, Healing ADD, and The Daniel Plan, coauthored with Pastor Rick Warren and Dr. Mark Hyman.

Dr. Amen is the founder and CEO of Amen Clinics, with 11 locations across the United States. His clinics have built one of the world's largest databases of brain scans related to behavior, containing nearly 300,000 SPECT scans from patients in 155 countries. He has written, produced, and hosted 19 national public television specials on the brain, which have aired more than 180,000 times across North America. His newest program, Amen WHOLE-4, is currently being piloted in more than 100 faith-based organizations worldwide to improve physical, mental, relational, and spiritual health at the same time. His upcoming books, Freddy, the Happiest Penguin: How to Train Your Brain for Happiness and The Neuroscience of the Lord's Prayer will be published in 2027.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (February 2, 2027)
  • Length: 256 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781668281734

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